Top 10 Chicken Breeds for Backyards - What do you think?

They have a pic of a Cinnamon Queen under Rhode Island Red.

I say variety is the spice of life.

For example.... LOL


In the big coop I have:

8 Icelandic hens (Rose, Phyllis, Whitney, Ida, Blucey, Blackie, Arby & Cloud)
2 PW Leghorns... (one hatched from a Trader Joe's egg...she lays a LARGE EGG!) Whitey & Josephine
2 EEs... one that lays an Olive egg and the other that's almost a year old and has never laid an egg! Blue & Olivia
Larraine my Australorp
"Mary" my FBCM dark layer
Olive, my Blue Copper Olive Egger
Betsy, my Barred Rock
Red, my Production Red
Rhonda & Rhoda, my 3 month old purebred Rhode Island Reds,
Snow, a 3 month old Leghorn
Buffy, a 3 month old Buff Orpington
Poof, a 3 month old Buff laced Polish
Silvia, a 3 month old White Crested Blue Polish
Delene, a 3 month old Delaware
Star, a 3 month old Black Sex link

In the West "Grow out pen" I have
4 yet to be named Silver Laced Polish
Polly a 3 month old Buff laced Polish
Sultan, a yet to be sexed Sultan!
3, 2 month old EEs
1 Splash Wheaten Roo... just waiting to see what he looks like before he crows I'm callling him Fred II
2 Icelandic roos.. I'll be rehoming the black one with white mottling on the front and keeping for a time the Crested Boy that I'm calling Vinder II
4 Icelandic pullets, 1 that is PURE WHITE..., 1 that is a pretty blue/white/red mix and 1 Crested girl that looks like Ida and one that looks exactly like a Golden Campine
1 PW Leghorn
1 Blue Marans
1 Cinnamon Queen

In the East "Grow out pen" I have
8 W/BW chicks... looks like I have a wheaten roo and a BW roo and some that are yet to be determined
2 Splash Ameraucanas (pullets, YEA!) from a BBS pen in Goodyear
2 Welsummer pullets
1 Barnyard mix that I've named Ugly, unfortunately, I think he is a roo but he is GIGANTIC and has muffs but no beard so he must have some EE in him... I'm waiting to rehome him... want to see what he looks like first.
 

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